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    <text bytes="4714" xml:space="preserve">= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are some pictures!
The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion Summer 2003????

Maybe you missed the chance to go to the Reunion in 1998?  Maybe it was such a great reunion, that you are willing to return to New Jersey for the next one.  If so this is your chance!!!  The donkeys are gone, and a few other things have changed, but the Burroughs 205 is still there.  

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program, and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner.  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an article about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an article in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8.  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number.  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think.

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are some pictures!
The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion Summer 2003????

Maybe you missed the chance to go to the Reunion in 1998?  Maybe it was such a great reunion, that you are willing to return to New Jersey for the next one.  If so this is your chance!!!  The donkeys are gone, and a few other things have changed, but the Burroughs 205 is still there.  

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program, and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner.  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an article about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an article in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8.  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number.  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think.

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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    <text bytes="4451" xml:space="preserve">= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program, and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner.  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an article about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an article in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8.  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number.  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think.

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program, and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner.  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an article about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an article in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8.  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number.  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think.

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program, and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner.  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8.  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number.  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think.

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner.  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8.  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number.  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think.

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging.

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in SAM76, and even wrote a primer about the language.
Dave Fox's RESISTORS page

Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.

[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

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Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over phone lines to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.

* Dave Fox's RESISTORS page: Dave Fox set up the first R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web page, at http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors.html</text>
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    <text bytes="7337" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

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      &lt;h4&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;FOUNDERS&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;EARLY BARN PERIOD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;LATE BARN PERIOD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;big&gt; PRINCETON PERIOD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;big&gt; ADVISORS&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;

    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt; &lt;big&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.world.std.com/%7Eawalker"&gt;Andy
Walker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Barry Klein&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Andy Redfield&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Anne Hunter&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Claude Kagan&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

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    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Bill Lang&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Bob Evans&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Dave Barach&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Cynthia Dwork&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Ted Nelson&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Bill Weasner&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Daryl "Beetle" Bailey&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Don Schattschneider&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;John Keane&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Bob Levine&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Bob Skillman&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Dave Theriault&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Geoff Peck&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;David Fox&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Larry Laitnen (sp?)&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Charlie Ehrlich&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Gail Warner&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Jean Hunter&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Mike Laznovsky&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Tony Weber&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Chris Brigham&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="donirwin@aaahawk.com"&gt;&lt;big&gt;Don Irwin&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;John Gorman&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Morgan Hite&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Hans Bream&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Cindy Cole&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Gifford "Giff "Marzoni&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iecc.com/johnl"&gt;John Levine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Neil Schwartz&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;

      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Doug Timbie&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;JB Robinson&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Jonathan Eckstein&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Paul Rubin&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;George Powell&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Joe Tulloch&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gurus.com/jordan"&gt;Jordan Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Tonia Saxon&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Jim Yost&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Skip King&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Lauren Sarno (Colias)&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Tsutomu Shimomura&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Larry Owen&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Len Bosack&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;

    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Laurie Lamar&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt; Lewis Johnson&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;

      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Mark Grossman&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt; Linda Toole&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Steve Payne&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;

      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gurus.com/margy"&gt;Margy Levine (Young)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;

      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Mark Stratton&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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      &lt;/td&gt;
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      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Robert "Igor" Lechner&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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      &lt;/td&gt;
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      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;S&lt;big&gt;teve Kirsch&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;("started West Coast branch")&lt;/td&gt;
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      &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Ted Heilweil&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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      &lt;td&gt;&lt;big&gt;Tom Wolf&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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    <id>1408</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T02:49:49Z</timestamp>
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    <text bytes="808" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

=</text>
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  <revision>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T02:53:57Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
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    <text bytes="954" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
*</text>
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  <revision>
    <id>1410</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T02:54:32Z</timestamp>
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    <text bytes="1017" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King</text>
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  <revision>
    <id>1411</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T02:58:23Z</timestamp>
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    <text bytes="1591" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased)
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.iecc.com/johnl]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch")
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Tom Wolf</text>
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  <revision>
    <id>1412</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T03:00:58Z</timestamp>
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    <text bytes="1907" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased)
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.iecc.com/johnl]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch")
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* Claude Kagan
* Ted Nelson
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitnen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream</text>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T14:31:14Z</timestamp>
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    <text bytes="1937" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased)
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.iecc.com/johnl]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch")
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitnen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream</text>
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  <revision>
    <id>1435</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T19:52:24Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>WikiSysop</username>
      <id>1</id>
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    <text bytes="1990" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased)
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitnen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream</text>
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  <revision>
    <id>1436</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T19:53:01Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>WikiSysop</username>
      <id>1</id>
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    <text bytes="2005" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased)
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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    <id>1437</id>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-20T19:53:52Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>WikiSysop</username>
      <id>1</id>
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    <text bytes="2033" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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  <revision>
    <id>1438</id>
    <parentid>1437</parentid>
    <timestamp>2006-11-21T19:24:54Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>NatKuhn</username>
      <id>7</id>
    </contributor>
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    <text bytes="2045" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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  <revision>
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    <parentid>1438</parentid>
    <timestamp>2006-11-26T21:09:43Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>JonathanE</username>
      <id>10</id>
    </contributor>
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    <text bytes="2095" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn / Princeton Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein [http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~jeckstei]
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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  <revision>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-27T00:58:42Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>JonathanE</username>
      <id>10</id>
    </contributor>
    <comment>/* Late Barn / Early Princeton Period */</comment>
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    <text bytes="2107" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn / Early Princeton Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein [http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~jeckstei]
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted "Hig" Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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    <timestamp>2006-11-27T00:59:34Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>JonathanE</username>
      <id>10</id>
    </contributor>
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    <text bytes="2112" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie Ehrlich
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn / Early Princeton Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein [http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~jeckstei]
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted "Hig" Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Late Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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  <revision>
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    <timestamp>2007-01-17T01:54:07Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>ChuckE</username>
      <id>5</id>
    </contributor>
    <comment>/* Founders */</comment>
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    <text bytes="2146" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie/Chuck Ehrlich [http://www.ehrlichorg.com]
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn / Early Princeton Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein [http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~jeckstei]
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted "Hig" Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Late Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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    <timestamp>2007-01-17T02:10:28Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>ChuckE</username>
      <id>5</id>
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    <text bytes="2161" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~Eawalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie/Chuck Ehrlich [http://www.ehrlichorg.com]
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn / Early Princeton Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein [http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~jeckstei]
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted "Hig" Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Late Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Larry Schear
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
* Mark Bayern</text>
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  <title>History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.</title>
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    <text bytes="7089" xml:space="preserve">= Formation =

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the RESISTORS as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Moore, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Moore sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Moore and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

* - I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:
&gt; The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
&gt; Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
&gt;
&gt; I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
&gt; Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
&gt; to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
&gt; language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
&gt; transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
&gt; Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
&gt;
&gt; Thanks for listening.
&gt;
&gt; Gary Foote
&gt; bigfoot@kalama.com
 
 
= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

= The Move to Princeton =

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== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the RESISTORS as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Moore, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Moore sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Moore and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

= The Move to Princeton =

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== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Moore, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Moore sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Moore and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

= The Move to Princeton =

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== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Moore, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Moore sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Moore and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

= The Move to Princeton =

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== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Moore, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Moore sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Moore and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

= The Move to Princeton =

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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Moore, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Moore sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Moore and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Mooers, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Mooers sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Mooers and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1969?? the RESISTORS staffed an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York that featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson may have been involved with this exhibit.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Mooers, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Mooers sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Mooers and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1970 the RESISTORS developed some of the software for an exhibit of interactive computer art at the Jewish Museum in New York. It featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson organized much of this exhibit.

John Levine adds: A small company in Mt. Kisco NY called Information Displays loaned the museum a computer called an IDIIOM, a Varian 620i mini with a large display, light pen, and pushbutton box. NYC artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim sketched out a clever Conceptual Typewriter which displayed an image each time the user pushed one of the buttons, with labels like ''the silent'' (a circle) and ''the providing'' (sheaves of wheat), with the images scrolling up on each button push. If the user selected an image with the light pen, it changed somehow, e.g., more or less sheaves of wheat, or a spinning image slowed down and spun the other way. Our job was to write the software, which was quite a challenge. The IDIIOM was only programmed in 620i assembler on punch cards, and there was no support for the display at all beyond minimal display list commands to draw points, lines, and circles. I was the de-facto project manager, working with Peter Eichenberger on the program code, and everyone I could find on the image code. Some of the images were easy, just a circle or a few lines. Some were drawn on graph paper and hand-coded to screen coordinates. For a particularly complex one with bubbles arcing out of a fountain I wrote a SNOBOL4 program that calculated the positions and punched out IDIIOM display list source, and ran it on Princeton's 360/91.

None of us were old enough to drive, so our development process involved punching and hand-checking source code at Princeton, then we'd take the train or bus from Princeton to NYC, then the subway across town, another train to Mt Kisco, then walk about a mile to Information Displays, debug for a few hours, then reverse the process to get home. That program worked quite well. We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn't understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.

The exhibit was an anti-climax. The show opened in the summer, when it was rather hot, and the heat from all the computers made it even hotter. To keep the IDIIOM from overheating, they stuck a block of dry ice underneath which worked OK, but when the company saw what was happening to their computer, they took it home.

Lauren Sarno was involved in other parts of the show, including one by a conceptual artist who mounted an exhibit showing a lengthy multi-screen video of daily life in his apartment. It took a day or so for people to notice that part of that daily life included a sex scene, and Lauren had to take the tapes to a video lab to have them edited out.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

[[http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=541 review of the exhibit catalog]]

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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Mooers, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Mooers sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Mooers and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1970 the RESISTORS developed some of the software for an exhibit of interactive computer art at the Jewish Museum in New York. It featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson organized much of this exhibit.

John Levine adds: A small company in Mt. Kisco NY called Information Displays loaned the museum a computer called an IDIIOM, a Varian 620i mini with a large display, light pen, and pushbutton box. NYC artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim sketched out a clever Conceptual Typewriter which displayed an image each time the user pushed one of the buttons, with labels like ''the silent'' (a circle) and ''the providing'' (sheaves of wheat), with the images scrolling up on each button push. If the user selected an image with the light pen, it changed somehow, e.g., more or less sheaves of wheat, or a spinning image slowed down and spun the other way. Our job was to write the software, which was quite a challenge. The IDIIOM was only programmed in 620i assembler on punch cards, and there was no support for the display at all beyond minimal display list commands to draw points, lines, and circles. I was the de-facto project manager, working with Peter Eichenberger on the program code, and everyone I could find on the image code. Some of the images were easy, just a circle or a few lines. Some were drawn on graph paper and hand-coded to screen coordinates. For a particularly complex one with bubbles arcing out of a fountain I wrote a SNOBOL4 program that calculated the positions and punched out IDIIOM display list source, and ran it on Princeton's 360/91.

None of us were old enough to drive, so our development process involved punching and hand-checking source code at Princeton, then we'd take the train or bus from Princeton to NYC, then the subway across town, another train to Mt Kisco, then walk about a mile to Information Displays, debug for a few hours, then reverse the process to get home.

Surprisingly, that project was a success and the Conceptual Typewriter worked quite well. We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn't understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.

The exhibit was an anti-climax. The show opened in the summer, when it was rather hot, and the heat from all the computers made it even hotter. To keep the IDIIOM from overheating, they stuck a block of dry ice underneath which worked OK, but when the company saw what was happening to their computer, they took it home.

Lauren Sarno was involved in other parts of the show, including one by a conceptual artist who mounted an exhibit showing a lengthy multi-screen video of daily life in his apartment. It took a day or so for people to notice that part of that daily life included a sex scene, and Lauren had to take the tapes to a video lab to have them edited out.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

[[http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=541 review of the exhibit catalog]]

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    <text bytes="1182" xml:space="preserve">SAM76 was a recursive langauge (not totally unlike LISP and Trac) that the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. used in its early years. In fact, the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote a book about SAM76:

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Here is a link to the [http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors/s76.exe sam76 self-extracting zip file] for DOS and Windows, hosted at Dave Fox's R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web site. The resulting .exe file should be 1714153 bytes long. Lucky attendees of the May 1998 R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion received copies of the sam76 manual.</text>
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    <text bytes="1178" xml:space="preserve">SAM76 was a recursive langauge (not totally unlike LISP and Trac) that the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. used in its early years. In fact, the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote a book about SAM76:

"Do you have a copy of the RESISTORS book, called the sam76 Language? The foreword was written by Nat, and the 'backword' details a lot of names, and some of the history. That was the major long lasting product of the RESISTORS and the book is still valid, and the sofware is available for a number of platforms including the source code. That is also in AOL (keyword sam76). If you want the book let me have your address and I will be delighted to mail you a copy. The artwork in it was done by Joe Tulloch. and the book has been available since 1976, and is banned from the Hopewell Township School system due to the saracastic comments about said system." - Claude Kagan 

Here is a link to the [http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors/s76.exe sam76 self-extracting zip file] for DOS and Windows, hosted at Dave Fox's R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web site. The resulting .exe file should be 1714153 bytes long. Lucky attendees of the May 1998 R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion received copies of the sam76 manual.</text>
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I would have been a little too old too, since I am older than Ted.  I was 75 last Saturday. I met Ted at the first World Altair convention in 1976 and we became friends, I had opened my computer store in Feb. 1976 and it was going great guns. Ted was in the process of opening "the itty bitty machine company" in Evanston Ill. ( Mine was "The Data Domain" in Bloomington, IN) Ted suggested that we get togeter and merge the two bsinesses because I was verey good at making deals with the manufacturers and selling and his company had very good financial backing but wasn't experienced in my areas of expertise. This was to take place in early 1977. I would end up as president of the new company. In the meantime I would make decisios on what to sell and set up dealerships for both companies. It never came about because the industry and the market had changed so much that I was too busy and they were in the process of going belly up.
But Ted and I have remained friends until this day. My ssigned copy of CLDM was signed on the cover in Magic Marker and it disappeeared after 20 or so years. It is gone now but I wish I still had it so I could read it again.
I
At the time of that NCC I was working with The Computer Systems Group at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island. Part of my jb was to learn all there was to know about the scientific computers on the market and if they were suitable for the work tha we did. I also checked on who the principals in new companies, their expereience and backgound and, if appropriate, what company they spun off from. So, I was sent to every computer confeence and/or engineering show held every year I was employed there and about five years after I left.

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    <text bytes="2651" xml:space="preserve">= Biography =

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Compuer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled
manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other
controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices
committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is
a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practive with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which
prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

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'''Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan'''

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
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'''Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan'''

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Claude_A._R._Kagan Wikipedia user page]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM'''

We have just learned of the death fo Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, please email margy@gurus.org.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, please email margy@gurus.org.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - CLAUDE KAGAN - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, please email margy@gurus.org.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, please email margy@gurus.org.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 -- details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
[http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/12/04/news/doc4b1888f3ca007384474191.txt Article in the Trentonian]'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a memorial service or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a [[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]] or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM - [[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

We have just learned of the death of Claude Kagan, long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor. 
We will post more news as we have it.
If you would like to attend a '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' or contribute to a fund (yet to be set up) in his name, come on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. Details to follow. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
Please join us for a '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' at 3:30 PM on August 11, 2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Details on how to contribute will be posted here. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
Please join us for a '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' at 3:30 PM on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Details on how to contribute will be posted here. 
&lt;br&gt;
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
Please join us for a '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' at 3:30 PM on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Details on how to contribute will be posted here. 
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.peck.com/~geoff/resistors/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures]!

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. is an acronym which was the name of a computer club for high school students founded around 1967 which recruited me in eight grade and has pretty much set my course in life. So here I pay tribute to the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and attempt to track down as many former members and associates as I can. By the way, if you weren't specifically a member but you were in on the scene and you want to be listed on this page let me know. It seems silly to exclude people.

The RESISTORS started in Hopewell Township prior to 1967 consisting of a group of Hopewell Township School students who formed a club to smoke pot in a small stone building on Poor Farm Road in protest of the lack of decent science program in their school system. They visited me in my barn and changed their purpose getting high on computers instead. - Claude Kagan 

Early Barn period:

* Daryl ``Beetle'' Bailey
* Chuck Ehrlich
* Bob Evans
* Jerome N.B. ``Skip'' King
* Barry Klein
* Chris Brigham
* Mark Grossmann
* Don Irwin
* Gifford ``Giff'' Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Dave Theriault
* Joe Tulloch
* Gail Warren 

Late Barn period:

* Dave Barach (somewhere in Silicon valley)
* Mark Bayern
* Len Bosack
* Cynthia Dwork
* Jonathan Eckstein
* Peter Eichenberger
* Steve Emmerich
* Johnny Gorman
* Shelly Heilweil
* Ted Heilweil
* Jean Hunter
* Lewis Johnson
* Steve Kirsch (``started West Coast branch'')
* Nat Kuhn
* Robert ``Igor'' Lechner
* John Levine
* Margy Levine (Young)
* Steve Ludlum
* Geoff Peck
* Martin Pensak
* Andy Redfield
* Lauren Sarno 
* Don Schattschneider
* Linda Toole
* Mark Stratton
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf
* Jordan Young 

Princeton period:

* David Fox
* Morgan Hite
* Anne Hunter (Thomas)
* John Keane
* Michael Laznovsky
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Neil Schwartz 

Not sure...

* Matt Neuberg
* Tsutomu Shimomura (``Got his start in the RESISTORS'' per Ted Nelson)
* Al White
* Karl Nicholas
* Peter Murray 

Advisors:

* Claude Kagan
* Bob Levine
* Ted Nelson
* Anthony E (tony) Weber
* Larry Stein
* Margaret Fox
* Larry Laitinen
* Paul Murray 

(Some of these people were members, others were not, but I can't remember which are which. I guess its not really important. If you happen to know any more let me know. Here is as much of the publicity folder as I've scanned so far. Feel free to contribute captions for these images. - dsf@hci.ucsd.edu.)

Here is a link to the Sam-76 self-extracting zip file. The resulting .exe file should be 1714153 bytes long. Claude sent me this text relating to it, but I'm not sure who he is quoting:

Very good, BTW do you have a copy of the RESISTORS book, called he "sam76 Language", the foreword written by NAT, and the "backword" details a lot of names, and some of the history. That was the major long lasting product of the RESISTORS and the book is still valid, and the sofware is available for a number of platforms including the source code. That is also in AOL (keyword sam76). If you want the book let me have your address and I will be delighted to mail you a copy. The artwork in it was done by Joe Tulloch. and the book has been available since 1976, and is banned from the Hopewell Township School system due to the saracastic comments about said system.

Claude - You might want to put in the page some of the artwork from that book. Note that this book is the only computer book that I know of where the examples are actually executed as part of the typeset process, so that the results of the examples are absolutely accurate to the extent that the sample is correct. The typeset software was written in the sam76 language and is contemporary with UNIX roff. 

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    <text bytes="13412" xml:space="preserve">= Formation =

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Mooers, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Mooers sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Mooers and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1970 the RESISTORS developed some of the software for an exhibit of interactive computer art at the Jewish Museum in New York. It featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson organized much of this exhibit.

John Levine adds: A small company in Mt. Kisco NY called Information Displays loaned the museum a computer called an IDIIOM, a Varian 620i mini with a large display, light pen, and pushbutton box. NYC artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim sketched out a clever Conceptual Typewriter which displayed an image each time the user pushed one of the buttons, with labels like ''the silent'' (a circle) and ''the providing'' (sheaves of wheat), with the images scrolling up on each button push. If the user selected an image with the light pen, it changed somehow, e.g., more or less sheaves of wheat, or a spinning image slowed down and spun the other way. Our job was to write the software, which was quite a challenge. The IDIIOM was only programmed in 620i assembler on punch cards, and there was no support for the display at all beyond minimal display list commands to draw points, lines, and circles. I was the de-facto project manager, working with Peter Eichenberger on the program code, and everyone I could find on the image code. Some of the images were easy, just a circle or a few lines. Some were drawn on graph paper and hand-coded to screen coordinates. For a particularly complex one with bubbles arcing out of a fountain I wrote a SNOBOL4 program that calculated the positions and punched out IDIIOM display list source, and ran it on Princeton's 360/91.

None of us were old enough to drive, so our development process involved punching and hand-checking source code at Princeton, then we'd take the train or bus from Princeton to NYC, then the subway across town, another train to Mt Kisco, then walk about a mile to Information Displays, debug for a few hours, then reverse the process to get home.

Surprisingly, that project was a success and the Conceptual Typewriter worked quite well. We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn't understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.

The exhibit was an anti-climax. The show opened in the summer, when it was rather hot, and the heat from all the computers made it even hotter. To keep the IDIIOM from overheating, they stuck a block of dry ice underneath which worked OK, but when the company saw what was happening to their computer, they took it home.

Lauren Sarno was involved in other parts of the show, including one by a conceptual artist who mounted an exhibit showing a lengthy multi-screen video of daily life in his apartment. It took a day or so for people to notice that part of that daily life included a sex scene, and Lauren had to take the tapes to a video lab to have them edited out.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

[[http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=541 review of the exhibit catalog]]

= The Move to Princeton =


= Jonathan Eckstein's Recollections =

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The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Mooers, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Mooers sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Mooers and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000

= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1970 the RESISTORS developed some of the software for an exhibit of interactive computer art at the Jewish Museum in New York. It featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson organized much of this exhibit.

John Levine adds: A small company in Mt. Kisco NY called Information Displays loaned the museum a computer called an IDIIOM, a Varian 620i mini with a large display, light pen, and pushbutton box. NYC artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim sketched out a clever Conceptual Typewriter which displayed an image each time the user pushed one of the buttons, with labels like ''the silent'' (a circle) and ''the providing'' (sheaves of wheat), with the images scrolling up on each button push. If the user selected an image with the light pen, it changed somehow, e.g., more or less sheaves of wheat, or a spinning image slowed down and spun the other way. Our job was to write the software, which was quite a challenge. The IDIIOM was only programmed in 620i assembler on punch cards, and there was no support for the display at all beyond minimal display list commands to draw points, lines, and circles. I was the de-facto project manager, working with Peter Eichenberger on the program code, and everyone I could find on the image code. Some of the images were easy, just a circle or a few lines. Some were drawn on graph paper and hand-coded to screen coordinates. For a particularly complex one with bubbles arcing out of a fountain I wrote a SNOBOL4 program that calculated the positions and punched out IDIIOM display list source, and ran it on Princeton's 360/91.

None of us were old enough to drive, so our development process involved punching and hand-checking source code at Princeton, then we'd take the train or bus from Princeton to NYC, then the subway across town, another train to Mt Kisco, then walk about a mile to Information Displays, debug for a few hours, then reverse the process to get home.

Surprisingly, that project was a success and the Conceptual Typewriter worked quite well. We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn't understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.

The exhibit was an anti-climax. The show opened in the summer, when it was rather hot, and the heat from all the computers made it even hotter. To keep the IDIIOM from overheating, they stuck a block of dry ice underneath which worked OK, but when the company saw what was happening to their computer, they took it home.

Lauren Sarno was involved in other parts of the show, including one by a conceptual artist who mounted an exhibit showing a lengthy multi-screen video of daily life in his apartment. It took a day or so for people to notice that part of that daily life included a sex scene, and Lauren had to take the tapes to a video lab to have them edited out.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

[[http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=541 review of the exhibit catalog]]

= The Move to Princeton =


= Jonathan Eckstein's recollections =

When I joined the club in 1971, it had already moved to Princeton.  We had a room in the basement of the Princeton University "E-Quad" building where we could meet on weekends.  The room was cluttered with old power equipment and computers that I don't recall anybody ever using.  We had accounts on the Princeton University mainframe and access to several university computer labs.  There was a lab upstairs in the E-quad that had a PDP-8 and later a PDP-11.  We also had a key to a PDP-10 lab in the Chemistry building, which we could only use after hours.  The machine had a Evans and Sutherland LDS-1 graphics co-processor system and a nice implementation of "space war" which we played late into the night.  Several of us made a short animated movie on this system.  The procedure was to use a stock 16mm movie camera pointed at the screen, with its shutter solenoid hooked into one of the PDP-10's front panel lights.  You would blink the light to open the shutter, run the display through 500 cycles, and then blink the light again to close the shutter and advance the film.  I'll try to put a digitized version of the film online soon.  It took all night to shoot a 10-minute film.  To celebrate completing the movie, I think we put dry ice in the urinals of the chemistry lab men's room.

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October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Claude_A._R._Kagan Wikipedia user page]
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== Draft obituary ==

Claude Kagan of Hopewell Township was born in France and educated in France, England and the US. He graduated from Cornell with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1948), bachelors in Electrical Engineering (1950), and MS in Electrical Engineering (1950). Served in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WW II and the Signal Corps during the Korean War.

Claude worked for AT&amp;T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at the Engineering Research Center outside Princeton, and later as a consultant for SAM76 Inc. His work included communications, manufacturing systems, and visionary work on computers in the home and the future of personal computing.

In addition to thinking about the future, Claude began collecting historical technology in the 1960’s and filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs 205 vacuum tube computer. Fortunately the PDP-8 and other highlights of his collection were moved to the InfoAge Museum in Wall, NJ, before the barn burned in 2009.

He was a radio amateur, KE2XY and W2UUI, and professional engineer. Claude was active in the IEEE and related organizations for many years and received the IEEE Computer Society medal for extraordinary contributions in 1984.

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into computing and engineering through the RESISTORS, the Cornell alumni network, and informally. 

Burial will be private but a memorial event is being organized and a scholarship fund will is being created in his honor. See www.RESISTORS.org for details.


== Summary of events ==


October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Claude_A._R._Kagan Wikipedia user page]
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Claude Kagan of Hopewell Township was born in France and educated in France, England and the US. He graduated from Cornell with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1948), bachelors in Electrical Engineering (1950), and MS in Electrical Engineering (1950). Served in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WW II and the Signal Corps during the Korean War.

Claude worked for AT&amp;T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at the Engineering Research Center outside Princeton, and later as a consultant for SAM76 Inc. His work included communications, manufacturing systems, and visionary work on computers in the home and the future of personal computing.

In addition to thinking about the future, Claude began collecting historical technology in the 1960’s and filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs 205 vacuum tube computer. Fortunately the PDP-8 and other highlights of his collection were moved to the InfoAge Museum in Wall, NJ, before the barn burned in 2009.

He was a radio amateur, KE2XY and W2UUI, and professional engineer. Claude was active in the IEEE and related organizations for many years and received the IEEE Computer Society medal for extraordinary contributions in 1984.

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into computing and engineering through the RESISTORS, the Cornell alumni network, and informally. 

Burial will be private but a memorial event is being organized and a scholarship fund will is being created in his honor. See www.RESISTORS.org for details.

== Summary of events ==


October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Claude_A._R._Kagan Wikipedia user page]
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    <text bytes="2924" xml:space="preserve">== Computers for Cynics ==

'''Are you a Dummy, naive and gullible?'''
If so, there are thousands of books for
the likes of you.  Go elsewhere, and
drink in the lies called "computer basics".

But if you are a clever and sophisticated
person who wants to know the real story
of how the computer world works, you
may enjoy some of the insights I present
in this brief series.

* Computers for Cynics 0  - The Myth of Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk

* Computers for Cynics 1 - [http://youtu.be/Qfai5reVrck The Nightmare of Files and Directories]

* Computers for Cynics 2 - [http://youtu.be/F-OUTjml12w It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC]

* Computers for Cynics 3 - [http://youtu.be/E6mNoUiWOYo The Database Mess]

* Computers for Cynics 4 - [http://youtu.be/nrDDFl-D2Tc The Dance of Apple and Microsoft]

* Computers for Cynics 5 - [http://youtu.be/7jmlnKBuJPE Hyperhistory]

* Computers for Cynics 6 - [http://youtu.be/KOclv0NrSsQ The Real Story of the World Wide Web]

* Computers for Cynics N - [http://youtu.be/CFKestdf2ow CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain]

== Books ==

* Computer Lib (two editions)
* Geeks Bearing Gifts
* Possiplex

== Ray Borrill writes ==

I would have been a little too old too, since I am older than Ted.  I was 75 last Saturday. I met Ted at the first World Altair convention in 1976 and we became friends, I had opened my computer store in Feb. 1976 and it was going great guns. Ted was in the process of opening "the itty bitty machine company" in Evanston Ill. ( Mine was "The Data Domain" in Bloomington, IN) Ted suggested that we get togeter and merge the two bsinesses because I was verey good at making deals with the manufacturers and selling and his company had very good financial backing but wasn't experienced in my areas of expertise. This was to take place in early 1977. I would end up as president of the new company. In the meantime I would make decisios on what to sell and set up dealerships for both companies. It never came about because the industry and the market had changed so much that I was too busy and they were in the process of going belly up.
But Ted and I have remained friends until this day. My ssigned copy of CLDM was signed on the cover in Magic Marker and it disappeeared after 20 or so years. It is gone now but I wish I still had it so I could read it again.
I
At the time of that NCC I was working with The Computer Systems Group at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island. Part of my jb was to learn all there was to know about the scientific computers on the market and if they were suitable for the work tha we did. I also checked on who the principals in new companies, their expereience and backgound and, if appropriate, what company they spun off from. So, I was sent to every computer confeence and/or engineering show held every year I was employed there and about five years after I left.

June 15, 2005</text>
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    <text bytes="2925" xml:space="preserve">== Computers for Cynics ==

'''Are you a Dummy, naive and gullible?'''
If so, there are thousands of books for
the likes of you.  Go elsewhere, and
drink in the lies called "computer basics".

But if you are a clever and sophisticated
person who wants to know the real story
of how the computer world works, you
may enjoy some of the insights I present
in this brief series.

* Computers for Cynics 0 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk The Myth of Technology]

* Computers for Cynics 1 - [http://youtu.be/Qfai5reVrck The Nightmare of Files and Directories]

* Computers for Cynics 2 - [http://youtu.be/F-OUTjml12w It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC]

* Computers for Cynics 3 - [http://youtu.be/E6mNoUiWOYo The Database Mess]

* Computers for Cynics 4 - [http://youtu.be/nrDDFl-D2Tc The Dance of Apple and Microsoft]

* Computers for Cynics 5 - [http://youtu.be/7jmlnKBuJPE Hyperhistory]

* Computers for Cynics 6 - [http://youtu.be/KOclv0NrSsQ The Real Story of the World Wide Web]

* Computers for Cynics N - [http://youtu.be/CFKestdf2ow CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain]

== Books ==

* Computer Lib (two editions)
* Geeks Bearing Gifts
* Possiplex

== Ray Borrill writes ==

I would have been a little too old too, since I am older than Ted.  I was 75 last Saturday. I met Ted at the first World Altair convention in 1976 and we became friends, I had opened my computer store in Feb. 1976 and it was going great guns. Ted was in the process of opening "the itty bitty machine company" in Evanston Ill. ( Mine was "The Data Domain" in Bloomington, IN) Ted suggested that we get togeter and merge the two bsinesses because I was verey good at making deals with the manufacturers and selling and his company had very good financial backing but wasn't experienced in my areas of expertise. This was to take place in early 1977. I would end up as president of the new company. In the meantime I would make decisios on what to sell and set up dealerships for both companies. It never came about because the industry and the market had changed so much that I was too busy and they were in the process of going belly up.
But Ted and I have remained friends until this day. My ssigned copy of CLDM was signed on the cover in Magic Marker and it disappeeared after 20 or so years. It is gone now but I wish I still had it so I could read it again.
I
At the time of that NCC I was working with The Computer Systems Group at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island. Part of my jb was to learn all there was to know about the scientific computers on the market and if they were suitable for the work tha we did. I also checked on who the principals in new companies, their expereience and backgound and, if appropriate, what company they spun off from. So, I was sent to every computer confeence and/or engineering show held every year I was employed there and about five years after I left.

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== Schedule ==

TBD

== Travel Advice ==

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. (Actually, we're not sure about that last option, because the nearest bridge was closed for repairs recently, and we're unsure when it reopens.) You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.</text>
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== Schedule ==

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== Travel Advice ==

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

== Travel Advice ==

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to the museum can be founds here: [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions].

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to Camp Evans and the InfoAge museum can be found here: [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions].

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record rememberances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to Camp Evans and the InfoAge museum can be found here: [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions].

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record rememberances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to Camp Evans and the InfoAge museum can be found here: [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions].

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record remembrances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to Camp Evans and the InfoAge museum can be found here: [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions].

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record remembrances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to Camp Evans and the InfoAge museum can be found [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions here].

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away. From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record remembrances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Travel Advice ==

Directions to Camp Evans and the InfoAge museum can be found [http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions here] or set your GPS for 40.19,-74.06.

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away (40.18059,-74.027301). From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record remembrances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Driving Directions ==
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&amp;q=2201+Marconi+Road+Wall+New+Jersey Directions from Google Maps].&lt;br&gt;
[http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions Directions on InfoAge.org]. &lt;br&gt;
Set your GPS for 40.19,-74.06.

===From the North:===

Take the Garden State Parkway South to Exit 105 (Route 36 East). Stay to the far right and take the first right turn (stop light) onto Hope Road. Go about 0.5 mile and exit onto Rt. 18 South. Continue to Exit 7A, which becomes Brighton Avenue going North. Turn right at the bottom of the hill (stop sign) onto Marconi Road. After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.

===From the South:===

Take the Garden State Parkway North to Exit 98. Stay to the right and continue to Route 138 East to Route 18 North. Take Exit 7 (Marconi Road). After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.

===From the West:===

Take I-195 East until it becomes Route 138 Easy (after the Garden State Parkway). Continue to Route 18 North. Take Exit 7 (Marconi Road). After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.


== Travel Advice ==

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away (40.18059,-74.027301). From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record remembrances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Driving Directions ==
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&amp;q=2201+Marconi+Road+Wall+New+Jersey Directions from Google Maps].&lt;br&gt;
[http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions Directions on InfoAge.org]. &lt;br&gt;
Set your GPS for 40.19,-74.06.

===From the North===

Take the Garden State Parkway South to Exit 105 (Route 36 East). Stay to the far right and take the first right turn (stop light) onto Hope Road. Go about 0.5 mile and exit onto Rt. 18 South. Continue to Exit 7A, which becomes Brighton Avenue going North. Turn right at the bottom of the hill (stop sign) onto Marconi Road. After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.

===From the South===

Take the Garden State Parkway North to Exit 98. Stay to the right and continue to Route 138 East to Route 18 North. Take Exit 7 (Marconi Road). After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.

===From the West===

Take I-195 East until it becomes Route 138 East (after the Garden State Parkway). Continue to Route 18 North. Take Exit 7 (Marconi Road). After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.


== Travel Advice ==

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away (40.18059,-74.027301). From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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== Schedule ==

The memorial will be 3:30 to 6:30 PM and will begin with a guided tour of the InfoAge Museum.

Attendees will have an opportunity to record video remembrances of Claude. 

Video from the event will be made available online for those who are not able to attend. Watch this space for details.

== Driving Directions ==
[http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&amp;q=2201+Marconi+Road+Wall+New+Jersey Directions from Google Maps].&lt;br&gt;
[http://www.infoage.org/visit#directions Directions on InfoAge.org]. &lt;br&gt;
Set your GPS for 40.19,-74.06.

===From the North===

Take the Garden State Parkway South to Exit 105 (Route 36 East). Stay to the far right and take the first right turn (stop light) onto Hope Road. Go about 0.5 mile and exit onto Rt. 18 South. Continue to Exit 7A, which becomes Brighton Avenue going North. Turn right at the bottom of the hill (stop sign) onto Marconi Road. After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.

===From the South===

Take the Garden State Parkway North to Exit 98. Stay to the right and continue to Route 138 East to Route 18 North. Take Exit 7 (Marconi Road). After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.

===From the West===

Take I-195 East until it becomes Route 138 East (after the Garden State Parkway). Continue to Route 18 North. Take Exit 7 (Marconi Road). After you pass the Camp Evans sign on the left, you'll see the main InfoAge campus and parking lot on your right.


== Travel Advice ==

There are many lodging options within a 20-minute radius of the InfoAge museum. There are upscale options (Marriott, Sheraton), budget options (Holiday Inn, Red Roof, etc.), and countless no-name economy motels. There are a few bed-and-breakfasts and I think there's even an RV park nearby. We recommend that you pick someplace that's either a name brand or that has good online reviews, and avoid places that are right on the water (Belmar, Asbury, etc.).

The Belmar station on the NJ Transit train line is less than two miles away (40.18059,-74.027301). From there you can take a taxi to the museum, or you can take a nice walk along the water. You can take a train from NYC, with a couple of transfers and careful schedule-reading.

The nearest major airport is Newark Liberty (EWR). That's about 45 minutes away in *no* traffic, and it's easily double that in summer beach traffic.

We're less than one hour from Princeton and about an hour(ish) from Atlantic City.

Contact Evan Koblentz (evan@snarc.net/646-546-9999) with travel questions. (Thanks, Evan!)</text>
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The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.


Video and other materials from the event will be made available online. Watch this space for details.</text>
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The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

Materials from the event:
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.</text>
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The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.

== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures]!
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= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures]!
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= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive informaiton on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the information becomes available. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures]!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures]!
&lt;br&gt;
[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= Who were the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

Despite the name, and in spite of the times, not a political organization....

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. was one of the first computer clubs in the United States, meeting in the sixties and seventies in central New Jersey. We're not going to tell you what the acronym stands for; if you don't know, you weren't a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.! And no, Bill Gates wasn’t a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R. We met in a [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn].

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
&lt;br&gt;
[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in Hopewell, NJ, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of Claude A. R. Kagan, an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("The Barn") was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

[http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg barn]

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had the first (and last?) R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Hopewell, New Jersey. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of Claude A. R. Kagan, an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("The Barn") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
&lt;br&gt;
[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("The Barn") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
&lt;br&gt;
[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

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'''On December 3, 2009, a fire destroyed Claude Kagan's barn in Hopewell, NJ.
Luckily, he had already given his amazing collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''&lt;br&gt;
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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'''IN MEMORIAM&lt;br /&gt;[[Claude Kagan]] - October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012&lt;br /&gt;[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan]]'''

Long-time R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. advisor and supporter Claude Kagan died on April 26, 2012. 
A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

&lt;br&gt;A scholarship fund is being established in Claude's name. Please e-mail resistors@resistors.org to receive information on contributing to the scholarship fund, when the fund is operational. Thank you.
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'''If you were a R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R., email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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    <text bytes="3321" xml:space="preserve">'''August 11, 2012, at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Musum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ'''


The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.
* Slides to accompany the eulogy.


&lt;gallery&gt;
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_01.jpg|Slide 01
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_02.jpg|Slide 02
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_03.jpg|Slide 03
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File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_10.jpg|Slide 10
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_11.jpg|Slide 11
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_12.jpg|Slide 12
&lt;/gallery&gt;

== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.
* Slides to accompany the eulogy.


&lt;gallery&gt;
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_01.jpg|Slide 01
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_02.jpg|Slide 02
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_03.jpg|Slide 03
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&lt;/gallery&gt;

== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.
* Slides to accompany the eulogy.


&lt;gallery&gt;
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_01.jpg|Slide 01
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_02.jpg|Slide 02
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File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_23.jpg|Slide 23
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&lt;/gallery&gt;

== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict, Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.
* Slides to accompany the eulogy:


&lt;gallery&gt;
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_01.jpg|Slide 01
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_02.jpg|Slide 02
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_03.jpg|Slide 03
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File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_09.jpg|Slide 09
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File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_11.jpg|Slide 11
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File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_13.jpg|Slide 13
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File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_23.jpg|Slide 23
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_24.jpg|Slide 24
&lt;/gallery&gt;

== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict, Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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[[file:Claude-with-Pipe-1-retouch.jpg‎|frame|Claude Kagan]]

The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.
* Slides to accompany the eulogy:


&lt;gallery&gt;
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_01.jpg|Slide 01
File:Ckm120808_kagan_memorial_Page_02.jpg|Slide 02
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&lt;/gallery&gt;

== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict, Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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'''August 11, 2012, at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Musum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ'''

The memorial event was well attended by RESISTORS, people associated with the InfoAge Museum, and others who knew Claude over the years.

== Materials from the event ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ptzTW0h9Y&amp;feature=plcp Video Tribute to Claude] courtesy of Allan Schear.
* Slides to accompany the eulogy:


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== Remembrances ==

==== Skip King ====
Along those lines some may recall Claude’s stories of carrying powdered Hollandaise in his briefcase when he traveled. If a menu did not have Eggs Benedict he would whip out the envelope and insist the cook prepare it with the proffered packet of powder. 

If the menu did list Eggs Benedict, Claude would order it and upon being presented the bill for $4.50 he would ask for the menu and point to "eggs any style" for $2.00 and insist that was all he need pay.

==== Joe Tulloch ====
I recall being at the barn during that moon walk in 1969...there a couple small TV sets hooked up in different parts of the barn....We put together a small library and cleaned up areas in the barn.

It was quite a shock learning that Claude had gone on. I never got a chance to thank him for helping me become who I am today.
I recall him and the pipe. One of the wizards of the west. I recall him appearing out of nowhere one Christmas Eve. It was my first year going to the Barn. He came to our home in Trenton. He gave us a tree and toys. I was around 12 at the time. 

Working on the art for the book and that PDP 8 leads me to having a 25 year career in computer programming. Because, during the early seventies, one of Claude's engineer friends, presents an overview on one of the PDP series’ operating system, one night a week, at the Trenton YMCA. It's free and I like Digital Corporation. 

Years later a classmate, from that course, talks me into working for the state of NJ as a computer programmer.
Claude sends me to France for three months. There I learn about old bookstores, great libraries, art history, and beautiful churches. The art I saw inside and outside theses church structures amazes me.

Years later, I'm studying Church history and Theology, at a Biblical university. I do this for a year before starting Graduate studies in Buddhist psychology, Taoism, and meditation. After retiring from the state of NJ, becoming a priest of Ifa, studying with the Ifa foundation of North and Latin America, and reconnecting with my Unitarian roots.

One of my key mantras is keeping an open mind. I send thanks to Claude, and my fellow Resistors and friends, we shared important learning experiences.</text>
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    <text bytes="2160" xml:space="preserve">Here's the list that Nat Kuhn has gathered so far, based mainly on his memory, Dave Fox's web page, and lots of e-mail. Contact resistors@resistors.org if you are among the missing. Some people on the list were members, some weren't but were around a good deal. Our apologies to the many people we've left off. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated, as are any clues as to the whereabouts of people, especially those without e-mail addresses. The list is divided up into rough historical periods that also don't necessarily make much sense.

= Founders =

* Andy Walker[http://www.world.std.com/~awalker]
* Bill Lang
* Bill Weasner
* Bob Skillman
* Charlie/Chuck Ehrlich [http://www.ehrlichorg.com]
* Chris Brigham [http://resistors.org/chrisbrigham.gif]
* Cindy Cole
* Doug Timbie
* George Powell
* Jim Yost
* Larry Owen
* Laurie Lamar
* Mark Grossman
* Steve Payne

= Early Barn Period =

* Barry Klein
* Bob Evans
* Daryl "Beetle" Bailey
* Dave Theriault
* Gail Warner
* Don Irwin [mailto:donirwin@aaahawk.com]
* Gifford "Giff "Marzoni
* JB Robinson
* Joe Tulloch
* Skip King

= Late Barn / Early Princeton Period =

* Andy Redfield
* Dave Barach
* Don Schattschneider
* Geoff Peck (deceased) [http://www.geoffpeck.com/]
* Jean Hunter
* John Gorman
* John Levine [http://www.johnlevine.com/]
* Jonathan Eckstein [http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~jeckstei]
* Jordan Young [http://www.gurus.com/jordan]
* Lauren Sarno
* Len Bosack
* Lewis Johnson
* Linda Toole
* Margy Levine (Young) [http://www.gurus.com/margy]
* Mark Stratton
* Martin Pensak
* Mike Wolf
* Nat Kuhn [http://www.natkuhn.com/]
* Peter Eichenberger
* Robert "Igor" Lechner
* Shelly Heilweil (friend)
* Steve Emmerich
* Steve Kirsch ("started West Coast branch") [http://www.skirsch.com/]
* Steve Ludlum
* Ted "Hig" Heilweil
* Mike Wolf
* Tom Wolf

= Late Princeton Period =

* Anne Hunter
* Cynthia Dwork
* John Keane
* David Fox
* Mike Laznovsky
* Morgan Hite
* Neil Schwartz
* Paul Rubin
* Tonia Saxon
* Tsutomu Shimomura

= Advisors =

* [[Claude Kagan]]
* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu|Ted Nelson]]
* Bob Levine
* Larry Laitenen (sp?)
* Larry Schear
* Tony Weber
* Hans Bream
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    <text bytes="1354" xml:space="preserve">[[Claude|Claude Kagan]] lived on a fairly large property in Pennington, which had a house built in the 1800s, a barn, a few donkeys, and a troupe of Malemutes.

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

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    <text bytes="1367" xml:space="preserve">[[Claude|Claude Kagan]] lived on a fairly large property in Pennington, which had a house built in the 1800s, a barn, a few donkeys, and a troupe of Malemutes.

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

[http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of The Barn]</text>
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    <text bytes="1993" xml:space="preserve">[[Claude|Claude Kagan]] lived on a fairly large property in Pennington, which had a house built in the 1800s, a barn, a few donkeys, and a troupe of Malemutes.

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

[http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of The Barn]

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]</text>
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By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

[http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of The Barn]

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
* [http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/2009.12_December.html Lawrence Road Fire 2009-12]</text>
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By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of The Barn]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of the Barn]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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[[Claude Kagan|Claude]] lived on a fairly large property in Pennington, which had a house built in the 1800s, a barn, a few donkeys, and a troupe of Malemutes.

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of the Barn]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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[[Claude Kagan|Claude]] lived on a fairly large property in Pennington, which had a house built in the 1800s, a barn, a few donkeys, and a troupe of Malemutes.

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of the Barn]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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[[Claude Kagan|Claude]] lived on a fairly large property in Pennington, which had a house built in the 1800s, a barn, a few donkeys, and a troupe of Malemutes.

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.resistors.org/images/OLDbarn1.jpg Photo of the Barn]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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[[file:OLDbarn1.jpg‎|750px|The Barn]]

By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

While the group was there, DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) donated a PDP-8 computer, which was the mainstay of the "in-house" (actually "in-barn") computing.  Calcomp, Inc. also donated a "plotter," which could be used to make drawing in the days before dot-matrix printers.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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By the time the RESISTORS arrived there, Claude had already amassed a trove of cast-off technology from various sources.  The most impressive was a Burroughs Datatron 205, a gigantic vacuum-tube computer from the 1950s.  Rumor has it that Claude convinced someone in Detroit to give it to him, which they did on the condition that he would transport it.  He rented an 18-wheeler and drove it from Detroit to New Jersey, but had to rely on sympathetic truckers to help him out every time he needed to back it up, since he didn't really know how to drive it.  Most of us never saw it in operation, and there were many stories: that it cost $40 for the electricity to run it for half an hour, quite a sum back then; that when you did run it, the transformer on the pole outside would start to glow cherry-red; and that it took two full-time people simply to replace the tubes as they burned out.  It's main memory was a magnetic drum.

There was also a Packard Bell 250 which was perhaps the size of a Sub-Zero refrigerator and used "acoustic delay lines" as its main memory.  Amazingly, Peter Eichenberger was actually able to resuscitate it.

While the group was there, DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) donated a PDP-8 computer, which was the mainstay of the "in-house" (actually "in-barn") computing.  Calcomp, Inc. also donated a "plotter," which could be used to make drawing in the days before dot-matrix printers.

On December 3, 2009, the Barn was destroyed in a fire.  Fortunately, Claude had already donated much of his collection of vintage technology to the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum] and his papers to the [http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;rgn=main;view=text;didno=cbi00016 Univ. Of Minnesota].'''

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ Geoff Peck's pictures of the 1998 reunion include the Barn and the remnants of the Burroughs 205]
* [http://www.trentonian.com/article/20091204/NEWS/312049998/hopewell-computer-barn-crashes-as-historic-stage-burns&amp;pager=full_story Trentonian 2009-12-04]
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    <text bytes="4697" xml:space="preserve">Claude Kagan, also known Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan, Claude A. R. Kagan, or C. A. R. Kagan, was truly the guiding spirit behind the group.  He believed deeply in giving young people opportunities to learn in an active, "hands-on" way, and he practiced this both with the RESISTORS and through involvement with underprivileged youth in Trenton, NJ.

== Obituary ==

Claude Kagan of Hopewell Township was born in France and educated in France, England and the US. He graduated from Cornell with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1948), bachelors in Electrical Engineering (1950), and MS in Electrical Engineering (1950). Served in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WW II and the Signal Corps during the Korean War.

Claude worked for AT&amp;T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at the Engineering Research Center outside Princeton, and later as a consultant for SAM76 Inc. His work included communications, manufacturing systems, and visionary work on computers in the home and the future of personal computing.

In addition to thinking about the future, Claude began collecting historical technology in the 1960’s and filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs 205 vacuum tube computer. Fortunately the PDP-8 and other highlights of his collection were moved to the InfoAge Museum in Wall, NJ, before the barn burned in 2009.

He was a radio amateur, KE2XY and W2UUI, and professional engineer. Claude was active in the IEEE and related organizations for many years and received the IEEE Computer Society medal for extraordinary contributions in 1984.

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into computing and engineering through the RESISTORS, the Cornell alumni network, and informally. 

Burial will be private but a memorial event is being organized and a scholarship fund will is being created in his honor. See www.RESISTORS.org for details.

== Summary of events, written by Claude ==


October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

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Claude Kagan (born 10/7/1924), also known Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan, Claude A. R. Kagan, or C. A. R. Kagan, was truly the guiding spirit behind the RESISTORS.  He believed deeply in giving young people opportunities to learn in an active, "hands-on" way, and he practiced this both with the RESISTORS and through involvement with underprivileged youth in Trenton, NJ.

Claude died on April 26, 2012.   A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

== Obituary ==

Claude Kagan of Hopewell Township was born in France and educated in France, England and the US. He graduated from Cornell with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1948), bachelors in Electrical Engineering (1950), and MS in Electrical Engineering (1950). Served in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WW II and the Signal Corps during the Korean War.

Claude worked for AT&amp;T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at the Engineering Research Center outside Princeton, and later as a consultant for SAM76 Inc. His work included communications, manufacturing systems, and visionary work on computers in the home and the future of personal computing.

In addition to thinking about the future, Claude began collecting historical technology in the 1960’s and filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs 205 vacuum tube computer. Fortunately the PDP-8 and other highlights of his collection were moved to the InfoAge Museum in Wall, NJ, before the barn burned in 2009.

He was a radio amateur, KE2XY and W2UUI, and professional engineer. Claude was active in the IEEE and related organizations for many years and received the IEEE Computer Society medal for extraordinary contributions in 1984.

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into computing and engineering through the RESISTORS, the Cornell alumni network, and informally. 

Burial will be private but a memorial event is being organized and a scholarship fund will is being created in his honor. See www.RESISTORS.org for details.

== Summary of events, written by Claude ==


October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

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Claude Kagan (born 10/7/1924), also known Claude Ancelme Roichel Kagan, Claude A. R. Kagan, or C. A. R. Kagan, was truly the guiding spirit behind the RESISTORS.  He believed deeply in giving young people opportunities to learn in an active, "hands-on" way, and he practiced this both with the RESISTORS and through involvement with underprivileged youth in Trenton, NJ.

Claude died on April 26, 2012.   A '''[[Memorial Service for Claude Kagan|memorial service]]''' was held on August&amp;nbsp;11,&amp;nbsp;2012 at the [http://infoage.org/exhibits/vintage-computers InfoAge Museum at Historic Camp Evans] in Wall, NJ. 

Herb Johnson has produced a lovely "[http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/kagan.html Claude Kagan memorial page]," which collects a lot of information on Claude and links to other resources. Thanks, Herb!

== Obituary ==

Claude Kagan of Hopewell Township was born in France and educated in France, England and the US. He graduated from Cornell with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1948), bachelors in Electrical Engineering (1950), and MS in Electrical Engineering (1950). Served in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WW II and the Signal Corps during the Korean War.

Claude worked for AT&amp;T/Western Electric from 1953 to 1988, mostly at the Engineering Research Center outside Princeton, and later as a consultant for SAM76 Inc. His work included communications, manufacturing systems, and visionary work on computers in the home and the future of personal computing.

In addition to thinking about the future, Claude began collecting historical technology in the 1960’s and filled his barn with artifacts, including a Burroughs 205 vacuum tube computer. Fortunately the PDP-8 and other highlights of his collection were moved to the InfoAge Museum in Wall, NJ, before the barn burned in 2009.

He was a radio amateur, KE2XY and W2UUI, and professional engineer. Claude was active in the IEEE and related organizations for many years and received the IEEE Computer Society medal for extraordinary contributions in 1984.

Claude was an active mentor who guided many young people into computing and engineering through the RESISTORS, the Cornell alumni network, and informally. 

Burial will be private but a memorial event is being organized and a scholarship fund will is being created in his honor. See www.RESISTORS.org for details.

== Summary of events, written by Claude ==


October 7, 1924 - April 26, 2012

Born in France, attended early school there, then later in England and
finally finished HS in US. Started College at Cornell in 1942, Mechanical
Engineering, drafted and
served in AUS 1944 to 1946, retuned to Cornell, got BME, then BEE and
finally MSc in Civil Engineering.

Started work at EBASCO in NY and Southern Illinois, was
called back to military active duty in 1950 during Korean
conflict, and served in France as liaison officer with French
PTT, and other special assignments.

Released in 1953 and went to work for Western Electric Co
in Lawrence and N. Andover mass. Involved in final setup
and testing of Missile Range communications system and
became interested in early Computer system.

Published in 1957 IEEE section prize winning paper on computer controlled manufacturing system with specially
designed bidirectionally accessible data base.

Designed large scale computer controlled system with telecommunications for
the Merrimack Valley Works of WE company.

Was transferred to NY and soon after to the newly formed
WE engineering research center in May 1958, in Hopewell
Township.

Responsibility was primarily to look in the future for computer and other controlling techniques to be used in manufacturing.

Published a number of papers along those lines.

Some of the proposals were implemented in factories.

At same time was active in the IEEE being chairman of the coputing devices committee and also after several years of the
data communications committee.  Was charter founder of
AFIPS, the American Federation of Information Societies.

Was awarded by the IEEE computer society the 1984 medal for extraordinary
contributions &amp;c &amp;c. Was also one of half a
dozen people who was give a second 1984 award, that by
the Princeton Section of the IEEE.

Became involved on the side with the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. in 1965, and that is a different story.

Retired from AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories at the end of 1988.

Have been since then consultant in private practice with my
own small company, and a couple of friends and associates.

Among significant activities was the installation of computer
aided election reporting and ballot preparation for the Mercer
County Clerk's office. Also consulted for the County Clerk
with reference to a proposed Electronic Voting Machine system for which prelimnary action had been taken by
Mercer County Freeholders. After studying the proposal and
submitting a report the Freeholders decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and not to approve the acquisition
of untested and unproven system consisting of 600 IBM PC
machines with no demonstatable software.

May 25, 1998

Links:

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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S do? =

We exhibited at computer shows, we taught each other to program [http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html (picture)], and we fooled around. The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now, but we did it before personal computers existed. Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)].  Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the Trac language, and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the Trac language, and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!

= What is SAM76? =

Early R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. wrote programs in [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]], and even wrote a primer about the language.</text>
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</text>
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* ''[[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]''

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</text>
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* [[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Where did the funding come from? =

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</text>
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* [[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Stories? =

Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

* Where did the funding come from?

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

* On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

* Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

* We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</text>
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* [[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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= Stories? =

Read some of our [[Stories]]</text>
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and it was an example of what [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac," an acronym who abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* [[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and is a retronym (which [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac"), an acronym where the abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* [[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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[[file:Reunion1998group.jpg|frame|center|300px|Reunion Attendees]]&lt;br&gt;

= Stories? =

Read some of our [[Stories]]

Some links to [[Other Media]]</text>
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    <text bytes="5617" xml:space="preserve">'''If you were a RESISTOR, email resistors@resistors.org to get a username and password to edit this wiki. Then add your reminiscences! We also need a logo for the upper left corner of the wiki pages.''' - Margy Levine Young and John Levine

= What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? =

The RESISTORS was one of the first computer clubs for young people.  It was founded in 1967 in central New Jersey, and for most of its existence it was under the support and guidance of [[Claude Kagan]], an engineer at the Western Electric Research Center (part of "Ma Bell"), whose barn ("[[The Barn]]") in Pennington, NJ was filled with technological treasures and trash that he collected over many years.

The name came from the electrical component, with a nod to the spirit of protest that was in the air at the time, and is a retronym (which [[Ted Nelson]] calls a "back-ac"), an acronym where the abbreviation is chosen first, with acronymized phrase chosen later.  In our case, the name "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Studies" got the nod (although there was in fact an earlier version, "Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies.")

Here is a handout explaining "[[Who Are the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.?]]", written for the Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1971.
 
For more, see the [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]] page.

= Who were the RESISTORS? =

The group was founded by students at the Hopewell Valley High School who were interested in science and technology but didn't fine school engaging.  They met briefly at a house on Poor Farm Road until they and Claude discovered each other, at which point the group moved to Claude's barn and house.  We met there every Saturday from roughly 11 am to 11 pm for a number of years.  In the early 1970s there was a rift that no one can entirely remember the cause of, and the group moved to Princeton, where it met in space provided by Princeton University in the "E-Quad," Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle.

* [[List of R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]

= What did the RESISTORS do? =

We met every Saturday at the Barn and in Claude's house, often from 11 am to 10 pm or so.  The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music (Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals).  We didn't, uh, exactly 'fit in' at school and for many of us this was the center of our social.  A number of RESISTORS became close, life-long friends.

The two principles of the group, undoubtedly formulated by Claude, were "hands on" (as opposed to most museums' "hands off" policies) and "[http://www.resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html each one teach one]" (once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes).

In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house.  The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity!  We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the [[The RESISTORS and Trac|Trac language]], and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time.  After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages.  The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second.  It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.

Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes.  We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!

We exhibited at several computer shows.  Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; the conference coincided with a telephone company strike, so none of the exhibitors could get phone lines installed, which meant that a high proportion of exhibits were completely dead.  We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric.

[[Ted Nelson]] showed up around 1970 and enlisted a number of us to help out with the upcoming "[[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|Software]]" show at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  He became one of key "adult" figures in the group.

The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083275990/ RESISTORS in Barn] photo gallery
* [[History of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.]]
* [[Dave Fox's RESISTORS page]]

= The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. Reunion 1998 =

We had a RESISTORS reunion over Memorial Day weekend, 1998, at the Barn in Pennington. 45 former R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and friends attended, along with 15 kids, two horses, and a large number of kittens. Here are [http://www.flickr.com/photos/resistorsnj/sets/72157631083242680/ some of Geoff Peck's pictures] (added more 2012-08)!
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= Stories? =

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    <text bytes="2925" xml:space="preserve">== Computers for Cynics ==

'''Are you a Dummy, naive and gullible?'''
If so, there are thousands of books for
the likes of you.  Go elsewhere, and
drink in the lies called "computer basics".

But if you are a clever and sophisticated
person who wants to know the real story
of how the computer world works, you
may enjoy some of the insights I present
in this brief series.

* Computers for Cynics 0 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk The Myth of Technology]

* Computers for Cynics 1 - [http://youtu.be/Qfai5reVrck The Nightmare of Files and Directories]

* Computers for Cynics 2 - [http://youtu.be/F-OUTjml12w It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC]

* Computers for Cynics 3 - [http://youtu.be/E6mNoUiWOYo The Database Mess]

* Computers for Cynics 4 - [http://youtu.be/nrDDFl-D2Tc The Dance of Apple and Microsoft]

* Computers for Cynics 5 - [http://youtu.be/7jmlnKBuJPE Hyperhistory]

* Computers for Cynics 6 - [http://youtu.be/KOclv0NrSsQ The Real Story of the World Wide Web]

* Computers for Cynics N - [http://youtu.be/CFKestdf2ow CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain]

== Books ==

* Computer Lib (two editions)
* Geeks Bearing Gifts
* Possiplex

== Ray Borrill writes ==

I would have been a little too old too, since I am older than Ted.  I was 75 last Saturday. I met Ted at the first World Altair convention in 1976 and we became friends, I had opened my computer store in Feb. 1976 and it was going great guns. Ted was in the process of opening "the itty bitty machine company" in Evanston Ill. ( Mine was "The Data Domain" in Bloomington, IN) Ted suggested that we get togeter and merge the two bsinesses because I was verey good at making deals with the manufacturers and selling and his company had very good financial backing but wasn't experienced in my areas of expertise. This was to take place in early 1977. I would end up as president of the new company. In the meantime I would make decisios on what to sell and set up dealerships for both companies. It never came about because the industry and the market had changed so much that I was too busy and they were in the process of going belly up.
But Ted and I have remained friends until this day. My ssigned copy of CLDM was signed on the cover in Magic Marker and it disappeeared after 20 or so years. It is gone now but I wish I still had it so I could read it again.
I
At the time of that NCC I was working with The Computer Systems Group at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island. Part of my jb was to learn all there was to know about the scientific computers on the market and if they were suitable for the work tha we did. I also checked on who the principals in new companies, their expereience and backgound and, if appropriate, what company they spun off from. So, I was sent to every computer confeence and/or engineering show held every year I was employed there and about five years after I left.

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== Computers for Cynics ==

'''Are you a Dummy, naive and gullible?'''
If so, there are thousands of books for
the likes of you.  Go elsewhere, and
drink in the lies called "computer basics".

But if you are a clever and sophisticated
person who wants to know the real story
of how the computer world works, you
may enjoy some of the insights I present
in this brief series.

* Computers for Cynics 0 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk The Myth of Technology]

* Computers for Cynics 1 - [http://youtu.be/Qfai5reVrck The Nightmare of Files and Directories]

* Computers for Cynics 2 - [http://youtu.be/F-OUTjml12w It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC]

* Computers for Cynics 3 - [http://youtu.be/E6mNoUiWOYo The Database Mess]

* Computers for Cynics 4 - [http://youtu.be/nrDDFl-D2Tc The Dance of Apple and Microsoft]

* Computers for Cynics 5 - [http://youtu.be/7jmlnKBuJPE Hyperhistory]

* Computers for Cynics 6 - [http://youtu.be/KOclv0NrSsQ The Real Story of the World Wide Web]

* Computers for Cynics N - [http://youtu.be/CFKestdf2ow CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain]

== Books ==

* Computer Lib (two editions)
* Geeks Bearing Gifts
* Possiplex

== Ray Borrill writes ==

I would have been a little too old too, since I am older than Ted.  I was 75 last Saturday. I met Ted at the first World Altair convention in 1976 and we became friends, I had opened my computer store in Feb. 1976 and it was going great guns. Ted was in the process of opening "the itty bitty machine company" in Evanston Ill. ( Mine was "The Data Domain" in Bloomington, IN) Ted suggested that we get togeter and merge the two bsinesses because I was verey good at making deals with the manufacturers and selling and his company had very good financial backing but wasn't experienced in my areas of expertise. This was to take place in early 1977. I would end up as president of the new company. In the meantime I would make decisios on what to sell and set up dealerships for both companies. It never came about because the industry and the market had changed so much that I was too busy and they were in the process of going belly up.
But Ted and I have remained friends until this day. My ssigned copy of CLDM was signed on the cover in Magic Marker and it disappeeared after 20 or so years. It is gone now but I wish I still had it so I could read it again.
I
At the time of that NCC I was working with The Computer Systems Group at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island. Part of my jb was to learn all there was to know about the scientific computers on the market and if they were suitable for the work tha we did. I also checked on who the principals in new companies, their expereience and backgound and, if appropriate, what company they spun off from. So, I was sent to every computer confeence and/or engineering show held every year I was employed there and about five years after I left.

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    <text bytes="3538" xml:space="preserve">Ted Nelson is a computing and information visionary who found Claude and the RESISTORS around 1970 when he was involved in organizing one of the first museum exhibits related to computers and the arts, called  [[The RESISTORS and the Software Show at the Jewish Museum|"Software"]].  He enlisted a number of the RESISTORS' help in working on the show, and became a lifelong friend, inspiration, and source of perplexity and wonder for many of us.

== Computers for Cynics ==

'''Are you a Dummy, naive and gullible?'''
If so, there are thousands of books for
the likes of you.  Go elsewhere, and
drink in the lies called "computer basics".

But if you are a clever and sophisticated
person who wants to know the real story
of how the computer world works, you
may enjoy some of the insights I present
in this brief series.

* Computers for Cynics 0 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk The Myth of Technology]

* Computers for Cynics 1 - [http://youtu.be/Qfai5reVrck The Nightmare of Files and Directories]

* Computers for Cynics 2 - [http://youtu.be/F-OUTjml12w It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC]

* Computers for Cynics 3 - [http://youtu.be/E6mNoUiWOYo The Database Mess]

* Computers for Cynics 4 - [http://youtu.be/nrDDFl-D2Tc The Dance of Apple and Microsoft]

* Computers for Cynics 5 - [http://youtu.be/7jmlnKBuJPE Hyperhistory]

* Computers for Cynics 6 - [http://youtu.be/KOclv0NrSsQ The Real Story of the World Wide Web]

* Computers for Cynics N - [http://youtu.be/CFKestdf2ow CLOSURE: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain]

== Books ==

* Computer Lib (two editions) [http://blog.stummkonzert.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Ted%20Nelson%20-%20Computer%20Lib%20-%20Dream%20Machine.pdf scanned copy] with RESISTORS material on page 47
* Geeks Bearing Gifts
* Possiplex

== Ray Borrill writes ==

I would have been a little too old too, since I am older than Ted.  I was 75 last Saturday. I met Ted at the first World Altair convention in 1976 and we became friends, I had opened my computer store in Feb. 1976 and it was going great guns. Ted was in the process of opening "the itty bitty machine company" in Evanston Ill. ( Mine was "The Data Domain" in Bloomington, IN) Ted suggested that we get togeter and merge the two bsinesses because I was verey good at making deals with the manufacturers and selling and his company had very good financial backing but wasn't experienced in my areas of expertise. This was to take place in early 1977. I would end up as president of the new company. In the meantime I would make decisios on what to sell and set up dealerships for both companies. It never came about because the industry and the market had changed so much that I was too busy and they were in the process of going belly up.
But Ted and I have remained friends until this day. My ssigned copy of CLDM was signed on the cover in Magic Marker and it disappeeared after 20 or so years. It is gone now but I wish I still had it so I could read it again.
I
At the time of that NCC I was working with The Computer Systems Group at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island. Part of my jb was to learn all there was to know about the scientific computers on the market and if they were suitable for the work tha we did. I also checked on who the principals in new companies, their expereience and backgound and, if appropriate, what company they spun off from. So, I was sent to every computer confeence and/or engineering show held every year I was employed there and about five years after I left.

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    <text bytes="2544" xml:space="preserve">I'm not sure any of us exactly knew what [[Claude Kagan|Claude]]'s job at Western Electric involved, but a significant chunk of it involved the "Trac processor" (interpreter for the Trac programming language) that he developed for the PDP-8.

Trac was a lightweight (in every sense) programming language developed by Calvin Mooers in the early 1960s, which was well-suited to the world of "minicomputers" that emerged as the 1960s progressed.  Brevity was of value because minicomputers had extremely limited memory and very slow input-output.  Trac was built on simple but powerful principles.  It grew out of the idea of "macro expansion" and was reportedly similar to Strachey and McIlroy's GPM ("General Purpose Macrogenerator").  In modern terms it would be described as an (impure) functional programming language, with some similarities to LISP.

Nat Kuhn has implemented a Trac processor in Python, which is [https://github.com/natkuhn/Trac-in-Python available for download]; he's also [http://nats-tech.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-land-of-trac.html posted some reminiscences].

With Claude's encouragement and guidance, Barry Klein, Dave Theriault, Nat Kuhn, and John Levine worked on a Trac "primer," which included illustrations by Joe Tulloch.

Claude was initially very supportive of crediting Mooers' for Trac; in fact, he put some of us up to deviling folks who did not give Mooers credit.  Sometime after the RESISTORS left the barn, he and Mooers had a falling-out, which reportedly included a lawsuit by Mooers against Western Electric.  Claude developed an alternative programming language in the mid-1970s, which he called [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]].  Presumably as a result of the legal difficulties, Claude was quite cagey about its relationship to Trac in a typically Claude-like way, saying that SAM could stand for "Strachey And McIlroy" or "Same As Mooers."

Claude distributed SAM76 in various version, and wrote a "SAM76 Language Handbook" including Joe's drawings and perhaps based in part on the RESISTORS original "primer,"  which he published under the pseudonym "Ancelme Roichel" (his middle names).  In the book he claims that SAM76 is based on GPM and a language called M6 which google is not aware of and was perhaps a figment of Claude's imagination; he also credits "A very special man (whose name ewe dare not mention) who helped us understand the subtleties of another very interesting computer language and brought us ice cream that melted during a discussion," clearly a reference to Mooers.</text>
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Trac was a lightweight (in every sense) programming language developed by Calvin Mooers in the early 1960s, which was well-suited to the world of "minicomputers" that emerged as the 1960s progressed.  Brevity was of value because minicomputers had extremely limited memory and very slow input-output.  Trac was built on simple but powerful principles.  It grew out of the idea of "macro expansion" and was reportedly similar to Strachey and McIlroy's GPM ("General Purpose Macrogenerator").  In modern terms it would be described as an (impure) functional programming language, with some similarities to LISP.

In 2013, Nat Kuhn implemented a Trac processor in Python, which is [https://github.com/natkuhn/Trac-in-Python available for download]; he's also [http://nats-tech.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-land-of-trac.html posted some reminiscences].

With Claude's encouragement and guidance, Barry Klein, Dave Theriault, Nat Kuhn, and John Levine worked on a Trac "primer," which included illustrations by Joe Tulloch.

John Levine and Peter Eichenberger implemented a Trac processor for the PDP-10, which the developed on the Applied Logic time-sharing system.  When the PDP-11 came out, many of us were fascinated by its radical minicomputer architecture (at least after we got over the capitulation to IBM on the byte thing, and the octal-vs-hex thing).  John and Peter ported their Trac processor the PDP-11, and managed to get DEC to lend them one for a computer show... where the PDP-11 ran a multi-user version of Trac under a time-sharing system that the two of them developed.

Claude was initially very supportive of crediting Mooers' for Trac; in fact, he put some of us up to deviling folks who did not give Mooers credit.  Sometime after the RESISTORS left the barn, he and Mooers had a falling-out, which reportedly included a lawsuit by Mooers against Western Electric.  Claude developed an alternative programming language in the mid-1970s, which he called [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]].  Presumably as a result of the legal difficulties, Claude was quite cagey about its relationship to Trac in a typically Claude-like way, saying that SAM could stand for "Strachey And McIlroy" or "Same As Mooers."

Claude distributed SAM76 in various version, and wrote a "SAM76 Language Handbook" including Joe's drawings and perhaps based in part on the RESISTORS original "primer,"  which he published under the pseudonym "Ancelme Roichel" (his middle names).  In the book he claims that SAM76 is based on GPM and a language called M6 which google is not aware of and was perhaps a figment of Claude's imagination; he also credits "A very special man (whose name ewe dare not mention) who helped us understand the subtleties of another very interesting computer language and brought us ice cream that melted during a discussion," clearly a reference to Mooers.</text>
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Trac was a lightweight (in every sense) programming language developed by Calvin Mooers in the early 1960s, which was well-suited to the world of "minicomputers" that emerged as the 1960s progressed.  Brevity was of value because minicomputers had extremely limited memory and very slow input-output.  Trac was built on simple but powerful principles.  It grew out of the idea of "macro expansion" and was reportedly similar to Strachey and McIlroy's GPM ("General Purpose Macrogenerator").  In modern terms it would be described as an (impure) functional programming language, with some similarities to LISP.

In 2013, Nat Kuhn implemented a Trac processor in Python, which is [https://github.com/natkuhn/Trac-in-Python available for download]; he's also [http://nats-tech.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-land-of-trac.html posted some reminiscences].

With Claude's encouragement and guidance, Barry Klein, Dave Theriault, Nat Kuhn, and John Levine worked on a Trac "primer," which included illustrations by Joe Tulloch.

John Levine and Peter Eichenberger implemented a Trac processor for the PDP-10, which the developed on the Applied Logic time-sharing system.  When the PDP-11 came out, many of us were fascinated by its radical minicomputer architecture (at least after we got over the capitulation to IBM on the byte thing, and the octal-vs-hex thing).  John and Peter ported their Trac processor the PDP-11, and managed to get DEC to lend them one for a computer show... where after a week of day and night programming, mostly waiting for the low speed paper tape reader, the PDP-11 ran a working version of Trac. Later they expanded it to a multi-user version of Trac under a time-sharing system that the two of them developed.

Claude was initially very supportive of crediting Mooers' for Trac; in fact, he put some of us up to deviling folks who did not give Mooers credit.  Sometime after the RESISTORS left the barn, he and Mooers had a falling-out, which reportedly included a lawsuit by Mooers against Western Electric.  Claude developed an alternative programming language in the mid-1970s, which he called [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]].  Presumably as a result of the legal difficulties, Claude was quite cagey about its relationship to Trac in a typically Claude-like way, saying that SAM could stand for "Strachey And McIlroy" or "Same As Mooers."

Claude distributed SAM76 in various version, and wrote a "SAM76 Language Handbook" including Joe's drawings and perhaps based in part on the RESISTORS original "primer,"  which he published under the pseudonym "Ancelme Roichel" (his middle names).  In the book he claims that SAM76 is based on GPM and a language called M6 which google is not aware of and was perhaps a figment of Claude's imagination; he also credits "A very special man (whose name we dare not mention) who helped us understand the subtleties of another very interesting computer language and brought us ice cream that melted during a discussion," clearly a reference to Mooers.</text>
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Trac was a lightweight (in every sense) programming language developed by Calvin Mooers in the early 1960s, which was well-suited to the world of "minicomputers" that emerged as the 1960s progressed.  Brevity was of value because minicomputers had extremely limited memory and very slow input-output.  Trac was built on simple but powerful principles.  It grew out of the idea of "macro expansion" and was  similar to Strachey and McIlroy's [http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/225 GPM] ("General Purpose Macrogenerator").  In modern terms it would be described as an (impure) functional programming language, with some similarities to LISP. Its major advance over previous macro languages was a clean separation between I/O and macro expansion.

In 2013, Nat Kuhn implemented a Trac processor in Python, which is [https://github.com/natkuhn/Trac-in-Python available for download]; he's also [http://nats-tech.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-land-of-trac.html posted some reminiscences].

With Claude's encouragement and guidance, Barry Klein, Dave Theriault, Nat Kuhn, and John Levine worked on a Trac "primer," which included illustrations by Joe Tulloch.

John Levine and Peter Eichenberger implemented a Trac processor for the PDP-10, which the developed on the Applied Logic time-sharing system.  When the PDP-11 came out, many of us were fascinated by its radical minicomputer architecture (at least after we got over the capitulation to IBM on the byte thing, and the octal-vs-hex thing).  John and Peter ported their Trac processor the PDP-11, and managed to get DEC to lend them one for a computer show... where after a week of day and night programming, mostly waiting for the low speed paper tape reader, the PDP-11 ran a working version of Trac. Later they expanded it to a multi-user version of Trac under a time-sharing system that the two of them developed.

Claude was initially very supportive of crediting Mooers' for Trac; in fact, he put some of us up to deviling folks who did not give Mooers credit.  Sometime after the RESISTORS left the barn, he and Mooers had a falling-out, which reportedly included a lawsuit by Mooers against Western Electric.  Claude developed an alternative programming language in the mid-1970s, which he called [[The SAM76 programming language|SAM76]].  Presumably as a result of the legal difficulties, Claude was quite cagey about its relationship to Trac in a typically Claude-like way, saying that SAM could stand for "Strachey And McIlroy" or "Same As Mooers."

Claude distributed SAM76 in various version, and wrote a "SAM76 Language Handbook" including Joe's drawings and perhaps based in part on the RESISTORS original "primer,"  which he published under the pseudonym "Ancelme Roichel" (his middle names).  In the book he claims that SAM76 is based on GPM and a language called M6 which google is not aware of and was perhaps a figment of Claude's imagination; he also credits "A very special man (whose name we dare not mention) who helped us understand the subtleties of another very interesting computer language and brought us ice cream that melted during a discussion," clearly a reference to Mooers.</text>
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    <text bytes="1260" xml:space="preserve">[[Claude Kagan|Claude]] developed the SAM76 language just as personal computers became available; the original code ran under CP/M on the Intel 8080 (or perhaps even the 8008).  For more history, see [[The RESISTORS and Trac]].

Claude wrote in an email to someone:

"Do you have a copy of the RESISTORS book, called the sam76 Language? The foreword was written by Nat, and the 'backword' details a lot of names, and some of the history. That was the major long lasting product of the RESISTORS and the book is still valid, and the sofware is available for a number of platforms including the source code. That is also in AOL (keyword sam76). If you want the book let me have your address and I will be delighted to mail you a copy. The artwork in it was done by Joe Tulloch. and the book has been available since 1976, and is banned from the Hopewell Township School system due to the saracastic comments about said system."

Here is a (broken) link to the [http://www.foxthompson.net/dsf/resistors/s76.exe sam76 self-extracting zip file] for DOS and Windows, hosted at Dave Fox's R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. web site. The resulting .exe file should be 1714153 bytes long. Lucky attendees of the May 1998 R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. reunion received copies of the sam76 manual.</text>
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    <text bytes="2441" xml:space="preserve">Around 1970, [[Ted Nelson]] appeared and got a number of RESISTORS involved in preparing for a very forward-thinking show at the [[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/ACenturysHistory Jewish Museum] in New York City called "Software," and subtitled "Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art," which examined at the artistic possibilities related to information technology.  The show was was [http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/3691 controversial], and after it closed, the museum board reportedly voted that future exhibits have some direct relationship to Judaism.

Ted had arranged for Information Displays Inc. of Mount Kisco NY to lend one of their IDIIOM systems for the show.  It consisted of a Varian 620/I minicomputer and IDI's line-drawing CRT-based display; this was at a time when graphic displays were rare and costly.  We developed the software to implement a piece by conceptual artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim's called "The Conceptual Typewriter."  John Levine, Peter Eichenberger, and Nat Kuhn did the programming, and Margy Levine and Lauren Sarno rendered the graphics for animations.  The commuted up to Mt Kisco (about two hours on public transit) with our boxes of punch cards to get it running.

* [http://monoskop.org/images/3/31/Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf Scanned version of the "Software" catalog]

= Reminiscences =
Nat Kuhn recalls: In addition to the piece by Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, an artist named Agnes Denes had designed a piece to show conceptual relationships by stacking tetrahedra into a crystalline structure.  What she didn't realize is that tetrahedra don't stack into a regular array.  I remember a group of folks, including John and Margy's mother Ginny, puzzling this out in the Levines' kitchen one day.  I felt very left out because, as a 7th grader, I hadn't had geometry yet and I couldn't understand what they were talking about.

The exhibit took place during the summer and the space was not adequately air conditioned.  The Varian wouldn't work, until someone (Skip King?) went out and got a block of dry ice which we put under the Varian CPU... and the show went on!

One highlight was Nicholas Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group from MIT (this was before the founding of the Media Lab), brought a large plexiglass enclosure and a mechanical arm that would stack blocks, while gerbils running around in the enclosure would knock them over.</text>
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Ted had arranged for Information Displays Inc. of Mount Kisco NY to lend one of their IDIIOM systems for the show.  It consisted of a Varian 620/I minicomputer and IDI's line-drawing CRT-based display; this was at a time when graphic displays were rare and costly.  We developed the software to implement a piece by conceptual artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim's called "The Conceptual Typewriter."  John Levine, Peter Eichenberger, and Nat Kuhn did the programming, and Margy Levine and Lauren Sarno rendered the graphics for animations.  The commuted up to Mt Kisco (about two hours on public transit) with our boxes of punch cards to get it running.

* [http://monoskop.org/images/3/31/Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf Scanned version of the "Software" catalog]

= Reminiscences =
Nat Kuhn recalls: In addition to the piece by Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, an artist named Agnes Denes had designed a piece to show conceptual relationships by stacking tetrahedra into a crystalline structure.  What she didn't realize is that tetrahedra don't stack into a regular array.  I remember a group of folks, including John and Margy's mother Ginny, puzzling this out in the Levines' kitchen one day.  I felt very left out because, as a 7th grader, I hadn't had geometry yet and I couldn't understand what they were talking about.

The exhibit took place during the summer and the space was not adequately air conditioned.  The Varian wouldn't work, until someone (Skip King?) went out and got a block of dry ice which we put under the Varian CPU... and the show went on!

One highlight was Nicholas Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group from MIT (this was before the founding of the Media Lab), brought a large plexiglass enclosure and a mechanical arm that would stack blocks, while gerbils running around in the enclosure would knock them over.</text>
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Contribute your own stories here.  (good taste is necessary,  historical accuracy is less important)

* Where did the funding come from?

The dogs mostly.  A breeding pair of malamutes.  Every spring they produced a litter of  7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125.  They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming.  Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black.  One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway.  No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.

We also sold light bulbs and were not even above begging [http://www.resistors.org/images/PleaseHelpUs.html (picture)].

* On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped,  the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed.  The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing.  Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)].  This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis.  Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner?  Judge for yourself.  

Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household.  Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users.  Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right.  Then both were proven right.

* Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)].  When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].

* At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while.  Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8.  Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor.  The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?"  Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.

* We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year.  Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known.  On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin.  I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</text>
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    <text bytes="19575" xml:space="preserve">= Formation =

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. started in November 1966 when a group of students from the Hopewell Valley High School met in the Stone Cottage, then moved to meet in a barn owned by Claude Kagan, a research leader at nearby Western Electric Labs (now Lucent Technologies). The students were tired of the science courses in school and eager to learn real science on their own.

== Chuck Ehrlich's recollections ==

We founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. as a scientific and social organization for the brainy social outcasts from high school. Protests and smoking pot were not on our original agenda.

One of the earliest group activities I recall was cleaning out an old building (smokehouse?) on the Grossman's property (Poor Farm Road) that we were going to fix up as our clubhouse. This would have been in early spring 67.

We connected with Claude a few weeks later (May 67?) when he met one of the fathers (Brigham?) and invited us to the barn. The decision to move to the barn was not popular with everyone and we lost a few members over the change.

The primary computer in the barn at that time was the Burroughs 205, a vacuum tube computer weighing about 9 tons. Power to run the computer cost about $1 an hour (a considerable sum for teenagers in those days). The computer used enough power to heat the barn during the winter and could not be used during warm weather.

Some of the other artifacts in the barn included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes.

Upstairs in the Barn was the Anna Russell Memorial Theater.

At the time of the newspaper article below, Chris Brigham was president. My recollection is that I forced new elections later that summer and served as president until I left for college in August 68.

We staffed a museum exhibit in Princeton during the 67-68 school year with a Teletype (what else) dialing into the PDP-8 at the Western Electric Engineering Research Center (ERC). This exhibit was in a former grammar school on the east side of Nassau Street, just north of Washington Street [184 Nassau Street]. Several of us took evening programming classes at Princeton University (Engineering Quadrangle) in Fortran II and Algol 60. You could get a few seconds of free computer time on the 360/65 by submitting your cards at the window. PU was just starting to offer online access to TSS.

We had an exhibit at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC,a precursor to Comdex) in Atlantic City in April or May of 68 in an upstairs room away from the main exhibit floor. Our only online connection was through an acoustic coupler using a phone booth. AT&amp;T managers came to visit our exhibit but we were warned not to put them at the keyboard because they couldn't type.

The RESISTORS were involved with 'Project Might' an outreach program to blacks in Trenton, and it was through this program that Joe Tulloch joined the group. The Theriault family was part of the group that organized this project, possibly through the Unitarian Church in Princeton.

The TRAC language was used for many programming projects and as the subject of a Primer. Calvin Mooers, the inventor of the TRAC language, was (initially) supportive of the group and visited several times. Later Mooers sued Western Electric, claiming copyright infringement.

TRAC was an interpreter language with a LISP-like syntax that embodied many features later made popular by such as FORTH and Smalltalk. L. Peter Deutsch worked on the development of TRAC with Mooers and went on to work on Smalltalk as chief scientist for ParcPlace Systems.

DEC donated a PDP-8 (original series with 4,096 12-bit words of core memory), and a model 33 ASR Teletype to the group. We went to Maynard, Mass. and picked these up from 'the mill' (the original headquarters building) and brought it back to the barn in someone's VW bus. The computer was mounted on a pallet with 4 handles so it could be carried like a sedan chair making it one of the first portable computers.

We may have made two trips to Boston, one to pick up the PDP-8 and one for a computer conference related to the TRAC language. During on one of these trips several of us stayed at the home of Alan Taylor, who at that time was the publisher of ComputerWorld. Alan and his wife were gracious hosts and even made traditional English steak and kidney pie for us.

During the computer conference we used an acoustic coupler to connect to the PDP-8 at Western Electric in Princeton. This was so novel at the time that we had to instruct the hotel operator not to monitor or disconnect the line even though it sounded faulty.

In 1968 or 69 we made a group trip to Washington DC during the summer. I drove in a rented station wagon with Claude, Joe Tulloch, Gail Warner, and several others crammed in. We visited Jake Rabinow's lab at CDC, Margaret Fox and Joe Hilsenrath at NBS (now NIST) in Gaithersburg, the Smithsonian, and saw the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."

One of the computers we saw at NBS was Mobidic (Mobile Digital Computer), an early transportable computer (truck mounted) built for the US Army by Sylvania* at Needham, Mass.

At the time of the moonwalk in 1969, several of us were at the barn working on projects and watching the lunar landing on TV.

In spring of 1970, the group exhibited at the SJCC in Atlantic City during the time of the shootings at Kent State University.

Several people from the RESISTORS went to Woodstock. Skip King didn't come back as expected so I drove up the following weekend looking for him. Everyone but the Hog Farm commune had left by that time. Skip had gotten a ride to New York City and returned to the barn a few days later.

I received the following email concerning the MOBIDIC:

 The reference to the MOBIDIC (MOBIle DIgital Computer) built for the
 Army was built be Sylvania Electric, not Raytheon.
 
 I was in the Army Security Agency (1953-1960) and stationed at Fort
 Devens Massachusetts 1957-58. Along with 11 others I was placed on TDY
 to the Sylvania plant where we were given instruction on actual machine
 language programming for the MOBIDIC. The MOBIDIC Team was then
 transfered to Arlington Hall Station, VA and put on TDY to the National
 Security Agency at Fort Meade Maryland.
 
 Thanks for listening.
 
 Gary Foote
 bigfoot@kalama.com

== Andy Walker's recollections ==

I can clearly remember learning to program the Burroughs 205 during
April, because the 
weather was still chilly enough to allow us to use that machine, and the
heat from the machine made it bearable to work in the chilly Barn. By the
end of May, this was no longer a workable arrangement and I had tackled the
Packard-Bell 250, which used solid state circuitry and needed only a fan to
keep it cool.
My first experiences with the RESISTORS was several chilly April weekends in
the Barn, and I would guess that their move to Claude's facility happened no
later than March.

Dec. 2, 1999

== Don Irwin's recollections ==

During one year of that period I was the treasurer, just preceding Don
Schattsneider.  I guess because I handled the money, I appreciated where
it all came from.  The credit really belonged to the malamutes for
keeping the organization going and paying for the light and the heat.
Every year they bred a litter of 8 to 10 puppies which sold for $125.
each.  This was quite a sum in those days.  The dogs LOVED to run and
were always escaping to pursue their addiction.  When they ran off,
animal control usually picked them up some distance away and they had to
be bailed out.  I recall appearing in court on their behalf (they WERE
the organizations biggest asset).  One of them hurtled through a
doorway, while somebody was carrying a model 33 Teletype through.  They
Teletype was never the same, but the dog was OK.  We also turned a
profit selling light bulbs to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The first I heard of the Barn was when the resident artist painted all
the barnyard animals various psychedelic colors using dayglo paints.  It
was a real first - usually most owners of donkeys are busy farming and
it would never occur to them to provide them with a racy paint job.  The
neighbors in the nearby suburbs took great exception to this and there
was a major fuss.  Eventually the paint wore off and life in the suburbs
returned to the way it should be.

During the long winter evenings of 1968, when the barn grew too cold to
compute, the Friden Flexowriter belts on the Packard Bell-250 would bind
up and so we gathered in the house and discussed the future of
computing.  There was no doubt that people would want computing in their
home, the issue was whether it would be in the form of a home computer,
or whether it would be just a dumb terminal which hooked up over the
phone lines to large central computers (like Applied Logic Corporation
in Princeton)  which would allow interaction with other computer users.
I like to believe that time proved both groups to be right.

There was a great Halloween party/dance in the barn theater one year.
The stereo system was near state of the art and the California sound in
rock and roll made it very memorable.  The 60's were special and it
seemed that the Barn was always at the forefront of all those neat
things.  It's now history, and as history it is very vulnerable to
people's unreliable memories.  Dave Theriault was often strumming his
guitar with various 60's tunes.

Nov. 1, 2000


= Ted Nelson and Xanadu =

Ted Nelson, the inventor of the idea of hypertext, became a friend and mentor of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. He opened on the the earliest computer stores, published a manifesto called ''Computer Lib/Cream Machines'', and created the [http://xxx.xanadu.net Xanadu system].

* [[Ted Nelson and Xanadu]]

= The SAM76 Primer =

Ask Joe Tulloch?

= The Jewish Museum =

Chuch Ehrlich recalls: In 1970 the RESISTORS developed some of the software for an exhibit of interactive computer art at the Jewish Museum in New York. It featured a computer-controlled machine known as the 'gerbil smasher' developed by Nick Negroponte of the Architecture Machines Group at MIT. Ted Nelson organized much of this exhibit.

John Levine adds: A small company in Mt. Kisco NY called Information Displays loaned the museum a computer called an IDIIOM, a Varian 620i mini with a large display, light pen, and pushbutton box. NYC artist Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim sketched out a clever Conceptual Typewriter which displayed an image each time the user pushed one of the buttons, with labels like ''the silent'' (a circle) and ''the providing'' (sheaves of wheat), with the images scrolling up on each button push. If the user selected an image with the light pen, it changed somehow, e.g., more or less sheaves of wheat, or a spinning image slowed down and spun the other way. Our job was to write the software, which was quite a challenge. The IDIIOM was only programmed in 620i assembler on punch cards, and there was no support for the display at all beyond minimal display list commands to draw points, lines, and circles. I was the de-facto project manager, working with Peter Eichenberger on the program code, and everyone I could find on the image code. Some of the images were easy, just a circle or a few lines. Some were drawn on graph paper and hand-coded to screen coordinates. For a particularly complex one with bubbles arcing out of a fountain I wrote a SNOBOL4 program that calculated the positions and punched out IDIIOM display list source, and ran it on Princeton's 360/91.

None of us were old enough to drive, so our development process involved punching and hand-checking source code at Princeton, then we'd take the train or bus from Princeton to NYC, then the subway across town, another train to Mt Kisco, then walk about a mile to Information Displays, debug for a few hours, then reverse the process to get home.

Surprisingly, that project was a success and the Conceptual Typewriter worked quite well. We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn't understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.

The exhibit was an anti-climax. The show opened in the summer, when it was rather hot, and the heat from all the computers made it even hotter. To keep the IDIIOM from overheating, they stuck a block of dry ice underneath which worked OK, but when the company saw what was happening to their computer, they took it home.

Lauren Sarno was involved in other parts of the show, including one by a conceptual artist who mounted an exhibit showing a lengthy multi-screen video of daily life in his apartment. It took a day or so for people to notice that part of that daily life included a sex scene, and Lauren had to take the tapes to a video lab to have them edited out.

Skip King brought original copies of the book about the exhibit with him to the reunion, so we'll be scanning in some pages to add to this site.

[[http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=541 review of the exhibit catalog]]

= The Move to Princeton =

== Bob Levine's Recollections ==

Claude, the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. and Me

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. were originally a group of high school kids in Pennington who were interested in computers, and had discovered Claude Kagan and his barn. The group had been in existence for some time before my son John Levine first went out to the barn at the invitation of Dave Theriault from the Princeton Unitarian Church, and then later found that Peter Eichenberger was a regular. It was run by Claude Kagan, a computer engineer who worked for Western Electric, which had a lab near Pennington. He had an old wooden barn next to his house which housed a lot computer equipment he got from his company. 

John, Peter, Nat Kuhn, and Steve Emmerich started going regularly, driven there by me. I was initially urged to go to meet Claude by some of the parents. He lived alone but had had a companion who died under questionable circumstances. What the parents really wanted to know was if it was safe to have their teenage boys interacting with Claude?  That was long before LGBT was generally accepted as it is now.

When Claude and I met, he invited me into his house, where we exchanged pleasantries and backgrounds. I discovered that he was a very smart engineer who enjoyed the company of the bright kids who were interested in learning about computers. For all of the time I knew Claude we had a normal friendly relationship in which I admired his considerable knowledge and his willingness to teach it to the kids, who were crazy to learn about it. There were a few girls who came from time to time, but I was never quite sure whether it was the computers or the boys who were the attraction. As for Claude's dealing with the boys, there was not even a hint of anything improper. I later discovered that there was at least one woman who lived in Claude's house probably for free housing in exchange for housekeeping, but I neither knew nor cared about their relationship.

The barn held an eclectic assortment of computer hardware that the kids could play with and try to make work. I found a lot of it interesting, since I then had no experience with digital electronics. There was never any smoking in or near the barn, since it was a firetrap. Fire was the constant fear we all had. 

In time I learned a little of the technology but was mainly the parent who drove the the kids back and forth, initially to the barn, but later, to the Princeton University Computer Lab where the university allowed the kids to use their very large computers as long as they could learn how, and as long as they did not interfere with the students. To learn, the more svavy kids who figured it out started teaching one another and the rest of the group. Their slogan both at the barn and in the lab was, “Each one, teach one.” They started by using punch cards, which is how they learned how to be fast and accurate typists. Having to find the bad card, retype it, and then resubmit the stack to the computer took a long and frustrating time. Because the lab was very busy with students during the day this meant it was mainly available at night for the kids. I remember a few times going to the lab at about 3AM to drag John and some of his buddies home so they could get some sleep before class the next morning.
	
In time word got out to computer companies about the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. On a couple of occasions my wife Ginny and I drove them to the Digital Equipment Company (DEC) in Maynard, Mass. where they participated with Claude in fairly professional meetings. DEC ultimately gave them a PDP-8 minicomputer. It arrived with no instructions, and I have memories of John and Peter taking it on arrival one afternoon down to our basement where, using paper tape with punch holes as the input, they had it running it by late evening. It ultimately became the main attraction at the barn.

I also recall a computer conference in Atlantic City where they had obtained some space to demonstrate their PDP-8. As the conference started, the telephone workers went on strike so that all the exhibitors who depended on the phones to demonstrate their equipment were blocked – but not the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S. They quickly ran a pair of wires from the PDP-8 and clipped them to a nearby pay phone so they could communicate with another computer back at the barn. They were the only exhibitor who had anything working, and were mobbed. I think it also made the local papers. Claude was very proud of them.

Toward the end, for some reason I never understood, Claude had a falling out with Princeton High School kids and I became their mentor. I persuaded the university to let them use an unused EE lab where they could meet, and did a few times. However it was time for them to go off to college so there were soon no more R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., although the group has maintained contact.

= Jonathan Eckstein's recollections =

When I joined the club in 1971, it had already moved to Princeton.  We had a room in the basement of the Princeton University "E-Quad" building where we could meet on weekends.  The room was cluttered with old power equipment and computers that I don't recall anybody ever using.  We had accounts on the Princeton University mainframe and access to several university computer labs.  There was a lab upstairs in the E-quad that had a PDP-8 and later a PDP-11.  We also had a key to a PDP-10 lab in the Chemistry building, which we could only use after hours.  The machine had a Evans and Sutherland LDS-1 graphics co-processor system and a nice implementation of "space war" which we played late into the night.  Several of us made a short animated movie on this system.  The procedure was to use a stock 16mm movie camera pointed at the screen, with its shutter solenoid hooked into one of the PDP-10's front panel lights.  You would blink the light to open the shutter, run the display through 500 cycles, and then blink the light again to close the shutter and advance the film.  I'll try to put a digitized version of the film online soon.  It took all night to shoot a 10-minute film.  To celebrate completing the movie, I think we put dry ice in the urinals of the chemistry lab men's room.

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